Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
The proper temperature can be readily obtained both in winter and
summer. A hundred gallons of entire milk, will give, in summer, five per
cent. more butter than the cream from the same quantity of milk. Butter
of the best quality can be obtained without difficulty, both in winter
and summer. No special attention to circumstances, or change of method,
is at any time required. The churning in winter and summer is alike
simple and easy. The butter is not only of the best quality while fresh,
but is also best for long-keeping, when properly cured or salted.
Cleanliness in all the operations of the Dairy.
This is peculiarly necessary to the manufacture of good butter. Cream is
remarkable for the rapidity with which it absorbs and becomes tainted by
any unpleasant odors. It is very necessary that the air of the dairy
should be sweet, that it should be often renewed, and that it should be
open in no direction from which bad odors can come. (_Johnston and other
authorities._)
The statement of J. T. Lansing, who received the first premium for
butter from the New York State Agricultural Society, is as follows:--
_Keep the cows stabled through the inclement season_; feed them from
three to four times per day with good hay or green stalks; when near
coming in, add some oats, barley, or corn cracked. In summer, good
pasture, with living water accessible at all times, and plenty of salt.
_Treatment of milk and cream before churning._--Strain the milk in tin
pans; place them in a cool cellar for the cream to rise. When
sufficiently risen, separate the cream from the milk; put in stone jars,
well prepared before churning.
_The mode of churning in summer._--Rinse the churn with cold water; then
turn in the cream, and add to each jar of cream put in the churn, full
one-fourth of the same quantity of cold water. The churn used is a
patent one, moved by hand with a crank, having paddles attached, and so
constructed as to warm the milk (if too cold) with hot water, without
mixing them together. The milk and cream receive the same treatment in
winter as in summer; and in churning, use hot instead of cold water, if
necessary.
_The method of freeing the butter from the milk_, is to wash the butter
with cold water, till it shows no color of the milk, by the use of a
ladle.
_Salting the butter._--Use the best kind of Liverpool sack-salt; the
quantity varies according to the state in which the butter is taken from
the churn; if soft, more; if hard, less; always taking the taste for
the surest guide. Add no saltpetre, nor other substances.
_The best time for churning_ is the morning, in hot weather, and to keep
the butter cool till put down.
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